If you select the USB or BT channels and switch to the ‘config’ page input 1 is selected instead. So you can’t edit channel settings on your CQ18T unit itself.
If you do the same on the CQ Android app you can edit the BT or USB channel settings, like input source, trim level, name, etc.
I’d guess this is a bug?
Yes, I actually emailed A&H about this and they confirmed that it is a bug but they haven’t fixed it on purpose because it actually adds a feature some people find useful.
From what they told me it sounds like they are looking into making it a permanent feature in a future firmware update so you can configure everything on the mixer itself.
In the meantime, I’ve been using the iPad app whenever I need to make configuration changes on the BT input.
What is the added feature currently?
What you mentioned. The ability to configure the Bluetooth input via the app but not directly on the console. It is a bug which they left there because some people find it useful. My understanding is that they will be leaving it there while looking into the possiblity of making it a permanent feature accessible directly on the console.
The ability to configure the BT input was not supposed to be on the app either. It basically shouldn’t exist.
The ability to configure the BT input was not supposed to be on the app either. It basically shouldn’t exist.
They however do advertise the CQ18T as having 22 returns from your PC, and that is only achievable if you can edit the BT settings and change the input source. The CQ has the ability to rename the BT and USB channels, color them, set input source, etc, so that would most definitely must have been a planned feature.
So I’d think the app has the correct behavior, and the unit itself is lacking this feature.
Correct. It makes no sense to leave something like that on purpose. Perhaps they’re having issues staffing the dev team? I could fix this in about an hour if I had access to the source code. You should be able to select and rename BT and USB inputs from the inputs tab, the same as any other input. Having to use a workaround like this is unacceptable.
I enumerated the currently unresolved bugs with the mixer here:
And all this talk about how it shouldn’t even be a feature – nonsense. It’s an advertised feature and we paid for it. Anyone using the unit to it’s full potential is affected by this. Renaming inputs and outputs is about as basic as it gets on a digital mixer.
If we’re talking about the same thing, it’s what I was told. I just found the emails from the conversation I had with them about this. Let me try to clarify.
I discovered by accident that when working directly on the console, if BT was configured as a Quick channel there was no way to adjust the trim/input level. But when using the iPad app, the Trim control was there even when BT was set up as a Quick channel.
I contacted AH via email and they explained to me that when the BT input is configured as a Quick channel, the inability to adjust the Trim directly from the console is an oversight that they hope to improve in a future release. But on the flipside, the ability to do so within the app is technically a bug because the app should work the same as being directly on the console, namely it should not have the ability to adjust the trim.
Their current solution/workaround is to either run the BT channel as a Complete channel, or adjust the trim and configure the BT channel via the app.
So it’s a strange situation - the inability to adjust the BT trim directly on the console when set up as a Quick channel is an oversight. But the ability to do so on the app is technically a bug and was unintentional.
Basically the “bug” in the app creates a workaround for the “oversight.”
It looks like they will correct the oversight in the future and add the ability to adjust and configure the BT channel on the console itself.
That actually sounds like a different bug. I was referring to the workaround needed to rename or set as USB source the USB and BT channels. I’ll investigate your bug later and add it to my list if I can reproduce it. I’m compiling all current issues in one place.
I believe the inability to rename the BT input from the console when the channel is configured as a Quick channel is the same thing. It can be renamed from the iPad or Android app just fine.